Epidemiologic Perspectives and the Special Program In Tropical Diseases of the World Health Organization.

The article focuses on the epidemiologic perspectives and the special program in tropical diseases of the World Health Organization. The epidemiologist dealing with tropical diseases should be familiar with and be able to evaluate the scientific input from a spectrum of related disciplines. Therefore, epidemiologic investigations of tropical diseases are laboratory dependent and their success or failure will depend on the availability of services provided by an essential complementary cadre of laboratory based-experts.